30 Day Cold Shower Challenge

So last week, during a couple of days of unusually high temperatures for the middle of Spring, I decided I would take the cold shower challenge. This isn't an official challenge as such. It is just a personal one. 

Why, you may ask?  Honestly, I don’t know.  Because I can?  Because I’d heard about so-called benefits that I wanted to see for myself, whether true or false. 
 
There are different challenges, varying in the number of days in length and time spent in the shower. First, I wanted to l

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